Baldemar Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Katy, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Providing IT leadership and consulting across enterprise level portfolios. Project scoping, estimating and collaboration with technology partners, business partners and vendors to achieve short term and long term solutions.Delivering stabilization strategies and providing 30/60/90 day plans to achieve zero failure rates.Implementation of holistic monitoring strategies to enable detection of failures before they occur.

Houston, Texas Area

 Accountable for end-to-end IT, including operational availability, procurement, and budget management Business engagement and validation of IT demand, business requirements, infrastructure, inventory, and desktop support (SLA’s) Provided financial forecasts, budget expenditures and visualization of “True cost of IT” to executive management team Provided leadership and mentored team of IT professionals Implementation of asset management system utilizing SQL server database, barcoding, and hardware refresh process Governed IT standards, security, change management and quality assurance to comply with internal and external audits Communicate KPI’s and release schedules to senior management and external clients to ensure business project goals are met IT data analytics and support for corporate IT financial systems and data aggregation resulting in significant time savings and improvement to data quality  Supervised new office build out that included a complete design of network infrastructure, cabling, fiber backbone, data centers, conference rooms and vendor management  Implement and procure new systems including: wireless network, security system, sound masking system, phone system, distributed audio and video system, online video conferencing, Life Size systems and conference room automation Develop server and infrastructure requirements to support web and database environments to align with business goals Oversee numerous vendor relationships and contract negotiations resulting in year to year savings Administer license management, software implementation and integration of 3D engineering tools in coordination with all functional groups Coordinated client connectivity to establish secure trusted WAN/VPN connectivity between companies and systems Provided technical consulting for marketing efforts of web technologies, QR Codes, and social media Formalization and testing of disaster recovery plans

 Provided leadership of internal IT automation strategy of data center operations that contributed to visibility and efficiency across IT portfolio Engagement and consolidation of requirements across IT leadership to ensure consistent goals were targeted Provided cross functional strategy for internal IT operations division that included the design, development, testing, and implementation of automation systems used for daily IT operations and data center management Member of the IT horizontal leadership management team focused on championing ITIL structured change management, problem management, incident management and escalation management Held various titles while at HP including: Technical Services Manager, Development Manager, Application Services Manager, and DBA Manager Leadership and management of a global staff including technical and non-technical resources Provided resource allocation and forecasting, salary budget reviews, focal point reviews, skill set evaluation, employee interviews and creation of short and long-term goals Identification and reduction of high volume of incident tickets to near zero by implementing permanent resolutions that resulted in significant savings and stability to business systems – included reductions in Time to Own and Time to Fix SLA’s Implemented proactive application and infrastructure monitoring that dramatically exceeded monthly SLA expectations and improved application availability to 99.99% or better across IT portfolio Developed and delivered actionable reporting metrics to senior leadership and enabled syndication of tactical data to all stakeholders Established partnerships with various IT organizations including web hosting, infrastructure, DBA, operational support and single sign-on security services Optimized data sets by developing algorithms to identify real time event correlation, predictive analytics and KPI’s resulting in prevention of operational failures

 Supervised team of developers focused on developing enterprise software solutions for the environmental, health, and safety industry Participated in all areas of the software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, development, code reviews, testing, implementation, and client interface Developed key software components, automation of code compilation process, test scripts, and performance load tests Client engagement and consulting with fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Conoco, and Koch Developed tools and methods to support global user base with support for regional language configurations Governed development processes and management of multiple concurrent code lines Utilized Visual Basic, Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T-SQL, .Net, C#, and database management tools

Houston, Texas Area

 Managed company operations, client engagement and sales Designed and developed multimedia solutions Coordinated project proposals, sales, and customer management Designed and developed structural design software package targeting the AutoCAD user base within the Energy Oil and Gas industry  Designed and developed solutions to automate the transformation of 2D to 3D graphics Marketed AutoCAD supplemental solutions including sales, licensing and distribution  Detailed structural design of offshore platforms, decks, derricks, mass structures, floating structures, TLPs, SPARs  Deck layouts, general arrangements, 3D animations, piping Managed CAD drafting departments and IT functions